Collective term for some two dozen
habitats traveling in
multiple eccentric orbits around the world of Corona.
Each cycler is placed on a different orbital path around
the planet with
perigees of five hundred to one thousand kilometers and apogees ranging
from
one hundred thousand to over a million kilometers, depending on the
habitat.
The High Cyclers are built around a number of design plans,
including reengineered asteroids, comet based
orwood
trees,
freespheres,
and
more conventional habitat cylinders, rings, and spheres.
Cyclers vary in size from
five to twenty-five
kilometers across and in modern times have all been equipped with
reactionless
drives to ensure that
no collisions with other orbital installations or
Corona
itself can occur.
When at closest approach, the larger
High Cyclers are
visible as naked eye objects from the surface of Corona and
offer spectacular and ever
changing views of the planet as they travel along their orbits. High Cycler population
tends to fluctuate
somewhat over the years as the habitats wax and wane in popularity as
places to
live, but their population always increases dramatically just before
the
centennial and millennial celebrations honoring the founding of Coronan
civilization. During
this period, great
firesculpting
exhibitions take place on and around Corona and
these are often considered
especially spectacular when viewed from orbit.
